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stimulus
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  • When his heart spoke to him, it was to provide a stimulus to the boy, and to give him strength, because the days of silence there in the desert were wearisome.  (source)
    stimulus = something that encourages action
  • It's the consequence of adrenaline and other hormones flooding our system, usually in response to some kind of stimulus.  (source)
    stimulus = something external that causes the body to react
  • When they find either thing, they stop to enjoy the visual stimuli.  (source)
    stimuli = things that create excitement
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  • "At this point," she said, "pain is our ally. It acts as a stimulus. It will help him regain consciousness."  (source)
    stimulus = something that causes the body to react
  • There were too many stimuli, in this water, under this sky, the light a latticework shifting over her bright flesh.  (source)
    stimuli = things that causes a reaction
    standard suffix: Note that stimuli is plural for stimulus. This pattern is seen in other words that come from Latin such as cacti for cactus, fungi for fungus, and nuclei for nucleus.
  • He seemed to have lost the power of intellectual effort, now that the stimulus of pain had been removed.  (source)
    stimulus = something that makes the body react
  • She'll need to be taught to protect herself and control her powers before the stimuli from the physical world drive her mad.†  (source)
    stimuli = things that create growth or excitement, or things that causes an action
  • I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.†  (source)
    stimulus = something that creates growth or excitement, or something that causes an action
  • It was the lack of alternative stimuli that led me back to "Song of Myself," the only certain gift I had from her.†  (source)
    stimuli = things that create growth or excitement, or things that causes an action
  • Without science I was just another stimulus-response cave dweller howling at the moon.†  (source)
    stimulus = something that creates growth or excitement, or something that causes an action
  • And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid life-style, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life.†  (source)
    stimuli = things that create growth or excitement, or things that causes an action
  • The situation had nothing to do with race—it was a learned reaction to the stimulus of a physical challenge.†  (source)
    stimulus = something that creates growth or excitement, or something that causes an action
  • He could be a calm, undemanding figure in the classroom, but when the right set of competitive stimuli was applied (like electrodes to the temples of Frankenstein's monster, Jack thought wryly), he could become a juggernaut.†  (source)
    stimuli = things that create growth or excitement, or things that causes an action
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